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Ed Yong

Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer at The Atlantic, whose work has also appeared in National Geographic, The New Yorker, Wired, The New York Times, Nature and more. I Contain Multitudes is his first book.

This 3D model of a microbial community within the human gut allows researchers to study how bacterial changes influence overall health.

How Miraculous Microbes Help Us Evolve Better, Faster, Stronger

Invisible yet crucial, our microbial partners add a gene-swapping plot twist to evolutionary theory